27 year old Flying Nightingale LACW Margaret Campbell WAAF 2041818 was flying aboard Dakota III FZ655 of 437 RCAF ‘Husky’ Squadron was lost on the 24th October 1944, brought down by flak near, St Pol-sur-Mer, a suburb of Dunkirk, during a cargo flight from Antwerp (B) to Blakehill. This aircraft was one of nine Dakotas tasked with the delivery of 57000lbs of freight and ammunition. The circumstances of the loss are unclear, other than the freight delivery was successful and on the return flight, Flying Nightingale LACW Margaret Campbell WAAF 2041818 was flying aboard, along with F/Sgt Douglas Otto SCHNEIDER, F/Sgt Sydney Alfred GUMBRELL and W/O II John Herman SOPER. Co-Pilot Flight Sergeant J W Lockwood survived. Mercifully the aircraft was carrying no returning wounded – all those lost are buried in Calais Canadian War Cemetery. Lest we forget.
27 year old Flying Nightingale LACW Margaret Campbell WAAF 2041818 was flying aboard Dakota III FZ655 of 437 RCAF ‘Husky’ Squadron was lost on the 24th October 1944, brought down by flak near, St Pol-sur-Mer, a suburb of Dunkirk, during a cargo flight from Antwerp (B) to Blakehill. This aircraft was one of nine Dakotas tasked with the delivery of 57000lbs of freight and ammunition. The circumstances of the loss are unclear, other than the freight delivery was successful and on the return flight, Flying Nightingale LACW Margaret Campbell WAAF 2041818 was flying aboard, along with F/Sgt Douglas Otto SCHNEIDER, F/Sgt Sydney Alfred GUMBRELL and W/O II John Herman SOPER. Co-Pilot Flight Sergeant J W Lockwood survived. Mercifully the aircraft was carrying no returning wounded – all those lost are buried in Calais Canadian War Cemetery. Lest we forget.
Inscription
THE LORD GAVE
AND THE LORD HATH
TAKEN AWAY
BLESSED
BE THE NAME OF THE LORD
Gravesite Details
Leading Aircraftwoman, 437 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Daughter of Mrs. C. A. Campbell, of Lochmaddy, Isle of North Uist, Scotland. Age: 27 (?)
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